Tweeting? Blogging? New Cache club helps people use social media
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Rebecca Hansen LOGAN--Walking into Club New York, your eyes have to adjust to the almost non-existent light. The only lights illuminating the corridor and snack area are blacklights, making any white surface glow. At the end of the hallway is ...
USU’s David Peak named 2009 Carnegie Professor of the Year
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »Aggie physicist ‘infects’ students with love of learning, passion for research By USU Media Relations Infect with passion. Decode the arcane. Encourage the unencouraged. Research is teaching. These are among the “effective professor mantras” Utah State University physicist David Peak mutters to himself ...
Paradise museum holds treasures of Utah’s pioneer past
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »Story and photos by Seili Lewis PARADISE--One of the first structures that catch the eye as a driver enters the town of Paradise is the old tithing office building, now used to house a museum run by the society of the ...
Cleo Griffin, Newton’s library lady, started it all with $50 and a lot of help from her friends
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Kelly Greenwood NEWTON--Chances are, if you’re familiar with the Newton Library you’ve probably heard of a woman named Cleo Griffin. Griffin, an Idaho native, became the Newton library director as the result of an LDS Church calling back in 1997. She said ...
Students mark Guy Fawkes Day with bonfire, marshmallows
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Seili Lewis LOGAN--The Fifth of November was surely remembered this year, as USU students celebrated the European holiday. Guy Fawkes night is probably one of the biggest celebrations of failure in history. The story goes as such, a group ...
Kingdom Hall in Nibley houses three growing Jehovah’s Witness congregations
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Benjamin Wood NIBLEY—it’s 3 p.m. and roughly 60 people are in attendance at the services in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. They stand for a prayer and hymn and after sitting, Brother Hicks, a visiting elder from the Roy ...
Explorer Scout program teaches Paradise teens to be firefighters
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »by Seili Lewis PARADISE--Troy Fredrickson has been fighting fires in Paradise for 25 years. Fredrickson is chief of the town's volunteer fire department. He wanted to be a firefighter ever since he was a “snot-nosed kid coming around because fire is ...
Courage of her convictions: Jessica Sahely finds a way to help Ugandan women
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | 1 Comment »By Candice Mattson Jessica Sahely found herself standing on a platform overlooking the Nile River, her feet bound by thick cords. The water glided along smoothly below, gently tousled by some rapids and a small cascade. The banks were lined by ...
Strongest man in Cache Valley also reigns as Mr. USU Congeniality
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Nick Rust LOGAN--Chase Casillas, 22, won the first annual Sports Academy Strongest Man competition recently. The 6-foot-5-inch, 302-pound Casillas ended the final competition pulling a half-ton truck 100 yards in 24 seconds, blowing away his nearest competitor by 10 seconds. “I ...
JCOM alums urge girls to ignore media messages and ‘love your body’
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Brendon Butler Lindsay and Lexie Kite have a message for all young women: you can love your own body and feel beautiful even if you don't look like a Barbie doll. The 24-year-old twins spent the past ...
Best valley Halloween bargain? North Logan’s free Pumpkin Walk
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »Story and photo by Amanda Pierce NORTH LOGAN–Every October about 50,000 people attend the North Logan Pumpkin Walk to see more than 800 carved and painted pumpkins arranged into whimsical scenes. The Pumpkin Walk was started in 1982 by Ida Beutler and ...
Reviving USU’s Hatch Room: ‘When you walk through the door you leave the modern world’
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Tyson Thorpe LOGAN--Centuries seem to drift away in the basement of the Merrill-Cazier Library at USU. There is a distinctive room in the Special Collections and Archives of the library. It is a room set in a different ...
Wellsville women artists: Why they paint at the old P.O.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Nick Rust WELLSVILLE--The town's former post office has turned into a haven for local art enthusiasts. Artist Vonda Lauritzen purchased the building at 55 E. Main St. four or five years ago, and turned it into the Vonda Lauritzen Studio ...
Revelers enjoy a ‘howl of a night’ at the Moondog Ball, raising money for animal rescue
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | 1 Comment »Story and photos by Cassidee Cline LOGAN—People dressed up in cat ears, suit coats, formal wear and even jeans turned out in support of Four Paws’ animal rescue's 9th annual Moondog Ball, Saturday night. Dozens of business and private caterers provided food ...
Richmond’s library celebrates 95 years of service
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Dan Fawson RICHMOND -- The Richmond Library began a weeklong celebration Tuesday, commemorating its 95th anniversary. According to Library Director Juliene Parrish, activities are scheduled to run through Oct. 21, with a "grand finale” scheduled for Oct. 29. Howard Little, a ...
Lewiston’s library honored as top-notch by professional journal
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Kate Clark LEWISTON--The prestigious award the Lewiston Library received last February has not gotten the attention it deserves. The five-star rating awarded by the Library Journal demonstrates the small-town libraries circulation, visits, program attendance and Internet use per capita, earning them ...
Most popular attraction in Newton? Definitely the dam
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Kelly Greenwood NEWTON -- Way out west of Smithfield, tucked between mossy green farmlands and hay fields that look like spun gold, Newton Dam lies quiet on an early autumn evening. The water is placid, rippling gently in a slight ...
Training for body-building competition puts local man on intense road to fitness
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »by Seili Lewis Five weeks of training and 40 pounds later, Tim Hill is finally ready to compete in his first body building competition. Hill will be competing in two categories, men's body building novice lightweight division and the open middleweight. The ...
Nibley woman helps disabled kids learn horsemanship with ‘Giddy-Up Go’
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | No Comments »By Benjamin Wood NIBLEY – For 12 years Amy Platt and her volunteers at Giddy-Up Go have been helping children with disabilities. The non-profit program runs during the summer months at Platt’s property and once a week children from all ...
Prestigious Fry Street Quartet also runs USU’s string instrument program
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts and Life | 2 Comments »By Candice Mattson LOGAN --The music vibrates off the walls inside the Fine Arts building at Utah State University. Inside a white room on the second floor, the musicians sit assembled around black music stands. Each musician, equipped with a stringed ...